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J.R.R. Tolkien Live-Tweets "The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug"

So far, Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies have gone from one of the most anticipated projects of the past decade to becoming one of the most divisive major film productions of all time. Movie fans, film critics, and Tolkien purists have all weighed in with their thoughts, both positive and negative (mostly negative), on Jackson’s follow-up to the Lord of the Rings. But what about the father of Middle-Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien? What does he feel about having his 300-page children’s book turned into an over-eight-hour film trilogy?

Well, wonder no more because we stumbled across Tolkien’s official Twitter account, where he live-tweeted his experience while watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Check out Tolkien's surprisingly profane take on the movie below: